<p>While the term ¿session beer¿ as a style description has only been around since the 1980s, many classic beer styles, like Pilsner, K¿lsch, cream ale, and English mild and bitter, to name a few, have been a crucial part of ¿session¿ culture for beer drinkers for centuries. In more recent years, many craft brewers in America have begun producing additional low-alcohol drinks, providing sessionable examples of customarily strong beers. Nowadays, the craft beer market has many notable examples of ¿session IPAs¿ and moderate-strength pale ales and stouts, and even rare styles like Gose are now part of mainstream craft offerings. These cover a wide range in terms of malt balance and hoppiness, and their moderate strength requires high brewing standards to achieve balance and drinkability.</p><p></p><p>In Session Beers: Brewing for Flavor and Balance, author Jennifer Talley takes an overview of the history behind some of the world''s greatest session beers, past and present. Talley weav